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MEMBERSHIPARIA is a small, active co-operative of around 30 members with a wide variety of interests and involvement in action research. It is a community-of-interest with a strong value-driven and intellectual agenda, and its approach is at the forefront of the current change in social science paradigms. It differs from much conventional academic, private and even some public research agencies.
 Members of ARIA meeting on 6th March 2002 To become a member it is necessary to support the objectives of the Association, as outlined above, and be nominated by four existing members and then accepted by a General Meeting of the Association. You should approach a current member for further information. We are interested in a scale of organisation where we can know and be known, and in which we do not lose touch with each other and what is going on. We are not keen to generate a large organisation where there is a great division of labour. To these ends (as well as reflecting our philosophy of science), we have structured ARIA so that all members are committee of management members, as are all workers whether paid or unpaid. The Association also attempts to maintain a balance of social researchers, practitioners, academics, and members with consumer/ community interests. Reflecting the importance of our goals, membership fees are relatively substantial (also in order to maintain our website in the future). However 'substantial' is defined by individual members to be relative to their own current means. As a guide, at present, $20 covers meetings, mail and other basic expenditure and a further $30 contributes to pay for the members' workstation at Ross House. Members try to be are fairly active in some way - whether coming to meetings to discuss and present their work, attending annual Association activities, contributing labour or 'in kind' to the running of the Centre and the Association, and contruibuting resources to the website 'Centre'.
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